Italian Wine Dinner

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The Rubello is the only one I ordered. I think it was a very reasonable price-- maybe $18 a bottle. Frederick Wildman is the distributor in the USA. (I know some of the wine experts on the board who are in the industry have complaints about the wine knowledge of some of the current Wildman employees. In this case we could hear right from the winemaker through a female translator.) It was a 1999 Vicara Rubello. The Vicara name comes from a combination of three vintners (Vicente, etc.) I don't know if it would be considered a "super Piedmont" or not. It's from a district where they are not allowed to grow nebbiolo--primarily a Barbera district. It 's north of Alba and Asti and at a higher latitude.